CONGRATULATIONS UTE-MAUDE’ AND THE CHICKENS ARE OUT-OLIVE

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GREETINGS

Beautiful weather temps me to garden instead of getting ready for The Mass Sheep and Woolcraft Fest .The Lilacs are in bloom and the smell permeates the air. Baby Robins are peeking out of their nest at the barn door while Mama screams for me to leave. This is my favorite part of Spring.

Congratulations UTE

Board News: Coverlet Museum Adds New Board Members

The National Museum of the American Coverlet is pleased to introduce three new members of the Board of Directors. The new members bring extensive talent and knowledge of technical and historic aspects of weaving and conservation. These folks are most exciting additions to the Board. We are thrilled to welcome them to the NMAC family.

Ute Bargmann (Massachusetts) – Ute grew up in the German Bavari- an Alps and studied in

Switzerland, Germany and at the Language Institute in Munich where she graduated as a translator. She met her American-German husband, Robert Bargmann and they moved to the United States in 1965. She bought a loom in 1972 and began studying weaving at the Hill Institute in Florence, MA, three years later, receiving her Master Weaver diploma in 1979.

Ute was an early member of the Early Weaving Books and Manuscripts Group for Complex Weavers and applied her considerable knowledge of German manuscript paleography as well as her lifelong interest in world history to her continuing research and study. She has translated late medieval German manuscripts from as early as the 1420s on the technical aspects of tablet weaving and has delivered papers on subjects as diverse as “the Journey of Cotton into Germany and Slovakia” to “Counterpanes” at the Handweaving Museum annual conferences in Clayton, NY.

For several decades she has been researching her special interest in the European origins of what became known as ‘colonial’ coverlets. Ute has been a member of the Weavers Guilds of Boston, New Hampshire and Vermont as well as local chapters in western Massachusetts and has spent more than forty years demonstrating

Ute is a dear friend and a terrific and prolific weaver.

MAUDE AND THE CHICKENS

Finally the chickens and Maude are out. The only one left int he house is Helen and I can’t bring her out till all the grass and weeds are eaten. What a job it was to get this all done. Thanks to David for bringing down the dangerous limb that had been hanging in Maude’s pasture. And also thanks to the Boys, Charlie and Tyler for helping with the chicken yard. Everyone is happy.

Maude has gone out in the separate pasture with Carol Kinnivan. I went well although it is a pain to let them out. I still have to separate them and watch them as Carol has pushed Maude. I can’t trust her yet.

OLIVE

Tuesday I picked up Olive The only remaining hen from a hawk attack. She is bubbly and talkative. She was separated from the group by a small fence , she made such a fuss I put her in with the others on Wednesday. All went well and she even laid an egg.

The rescue where I got Sammy sent and message out to all their face book readers a few weeks ago warning that there were more predatory birds around this year. And all small animals such as cats and dogs should be watched carefully when outside. Last week a small dog got attacked by an Eagle but the Eagle couldn’t lift him. He was battered but alive. I have notice just in my small area many more hawks and I heard there was an osprey nest close by.

Hope you have a wonderful day and many thanks for reading my blog. Carole

I hardly ever saw a hawk or eagle here but it happens often. Those sheep have turned into trouble and mischief makers. It will get better as the summer goes on and when they are all together again it will be fine. Hope all is well with you.